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International Workshop on Astronomical X-Ray Optics 2009
Villa Lanna, Prague
December 6. - 10.12.

Dear Participants,

All the presentations (on-line Conference Proceedings) [450MB] in
*.ppt or *.pdf*.zip file [450MB]

6. December

16.00	Registration starts
17.00 - 22.00	Welcome Cocktail

7. December

I. Session on Astrophysics with Astronomical X-ray Telescopes

Session chair: Will Zhang

8.45 - 9.00	Workshop opening and Welcome notes (Rector of the Czech Technical University; University; Director of the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
9.00 - 9.10	Rene Hudec- Welcome to Prague - City of Astronomy & X-ray Astronomy
9.10 - 9.40	Chen Zhang - Chinese X-ray astronomy program
9.50 - 10.20	Rene Hudec - 40 years of Astronomical X-Ray Optics in the Czech Republic
10.30 - 10.50	Coffee Break

Session chair: Hisamitsu Awaki

10.50 - 11.15	Mikhail Pavlinsky - XSRG, astrophysical mission
11.25 - 11.55	John Nousek - Five Years of Swift Science: GRBs and More!
12.05 - 12.25	Yuichiro Ezoe - Recent development of light-weight & high-resolution X-ray optics in Japan
12.35 - 14.00	Lunch

Session chair: Mikhail Pavlinsky

14.00 - 14.30	Hisamitsu Awaki - Astro-H XRT system
14.40 - 14.55	John Nousek - The Swift XRT performance
15.05 - 15.20	Dan Schwartz - Lessons from Chandra: Comparing the Wolter I and Wolter-Schwarzschild prescriptions to optimize sensitivity
15.30 - 16.00	Coffee Break
16.00 - 16.30	Veronika Marsikova - X-ray Optics: Wolter versus KB
16.40	End of Session
16.55	Joint departure for the guided tour through the "Astronomical and Historical Prague"

8. December

II. Session on Astronomical X-ray Optics

Session chair: Mark Schattenburg

9.00 - 9.20	Jan Sik - Application of layers with internal stress for silicon wafer shaping
9.30 - 9.45	Suzanne Romaine - Results using platinum as a release layer for IXO thermally formed glass optics
9.55 - 10.20	Coffee Break

Session chair: Richard Willingale

10.20 - 10.40	Monika Vongehr - News from glass slumping project at MPE
10.50 - 11.20	Anita Schael - Mirror fabrication via glass slumping techniques
11.30 - 11.45	Mark Schattenburg - Shaping thin glass mirrors using air bearings
11.55 - 12.10	Jaroslav Urbar - Medipix/Timepix imaging detectors on ESA stratospheric balloon Campaigns Bexus
12.20 - 14.00	Lunch

Session chair: Monika Vongehr

14.00 - 14.20	Richard Willingale - Active X-ray Optics
14.30 - 15.00	Paul Reid - Adjustable Grazing Incidence Optics for X-ray Astronomy
15.10 - 15.40	Giovanni Pareschi - On going developments on monolithic X-ray optics at the Brera Astronomical Observatory: a status report
15.50 - 16.50	Coffee Break + poster session
16.50	Next program will be determined

Poster Session

15.50 - 16.50
	Stephen O'Dell - A stainless-steel mandrel for slumping glass x-ray mirrors
	Gufran Sayeed Khan- Design Considerations of Polishing Lap for Computer-Controlled Cylindrical Polishing Process
	Martin Blazek - Faint objects on INTEGRAL/IBIS mosaics in 15-80 keV energy range
	Christian Schmid - Simulations of X-Ray Telescopes for eROSITA and IXO
	Vladimir Tichy - Tests of Lobster Eye Optics for Possible Space Mission

9. December

III. Session on IXO Telescope

Session chair: Paul Reid


9.00 - 9.20	Martin Mika - Glass Composition Effect on Thermal Forming of Foils for X-ray Space Telescopes - CANCELED
9.30 - 9.50	Webster Cash - Development of High Resolution X-ray Gratings
10.00 - 10.30	Rene Hudec - Back-Up Technologies for IXO
10.40 - 11.10	Coffee Break

Session chair: Webster Cash

11.10 - 11.40	William Zhang - Fabrication and Metrology of Mirror Segments for the IXO Mission
11.50 - 12.20	Kai-Wing Chan - Suspension Mount and Alignment of IXO Mirror Segments
12.30 - 12.50	Paul Reid - Active Alignment Mount for IXO mirror segments
12.55 - 13.15	Ryan McClelland - Design and Analysis of the IXO FMA
13.20 - 14.20	Lunch

Session chair: Randall McEntaffer

14.20 - 14.40	Marcos Bavdaz, Nicola Rando - ESA concept of the IXO telescope
14.50 - 15.10	Max Collon - Silicon Pore Optics
15.20 - 15.50	Martin Mika - Glass - physical-chemical properties
16.00 - 16.20	Coffee Break

Session chair: Rob Petre

16.20 - 16.50	Randall McEntaffer - The Off-Plane X-ray Grating Spectrometer for IXO
17.00 - 17.15	Mark Schattenburg - Development of a critical-angle transmission grating spectrometer for the International X-Ray Observatory
17.25	End of Session

10. December

IV. IXO TWG Meeting

TBD

For Non-members of TWG

9.15 - 11.30	Guided tour at Prague's Brewery with beer tasting
11.30 - 12.30	Lunch at Vila Lanna
13.50 - 15.30	Visit to the Prague Planetarium and performance "Prague of astrologists and alchymists during the time of Emperor Rudolf II"

All participants

16.00

Departure to the Astronomical Institute in Ondrejov followed by the visit of Chateau Komorni Hradek where the Chateau tour, Concert and then Conference dinner will take place. Estimated return to Prague is around 12 pm

International Workshop on Astronomical X–Ray Optics

Prague 2009

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